Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces  (Read 374812 times)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2600 on: 04 September, 2021, 04:45:31 pm »
Mr Dumpidump is a great name.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2602 on: 14 September, 2021, 04:12:24 pm »
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

T42

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2603 on: 15 September, 2021, 02:29:01 pm »
Mildly surprised that passenger-available sockets were provided.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2604 on: 15 September, 2021, 02:41:16 pm »
For commuters' laptops and everyone's phones.
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2605 on: 15 September, 2021, 08:08:15 pm »
For commuters' laptops and everyone's phones.

Unless someone tries to run a hair-drier off it, and the breaker trips and they all stop working.

rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2606 on: 15 September, 2021, 09:05:45 pm »
For commuters' laptops and everyone's phones.

Unless someone tries to run a hair-drier off it, and the breaker trips and they all stop working.
DAHKKT
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2607 on: 16 September, 2021, 03:13:14 pm »
For commuters' laptops and everyone's phones.

Unless someone tries to run a hair-drier off it, and the breaker trips and they all stop working.
DAHKKT
Emergency heat-shrink repairs, I'll bet

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2608 on: 16 September, 2021, 03:17:51 pm »
For commuters' laptops and everyone's phones.

Unless someone tries to run a hair-drier off it, and the breaker trips and they all stop working.
DAHKKT
Emergency heat-shrink repairs, I'll bet
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Zipperhead

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2609 on: 16 September, 2021, 04:02:09 pm »
For commuters' laptops and everyone's phones.

Unless someone tries to run a hair-drier off it, and the breaker trips and they all stop working.
DAHKKT

Hair dryer as a euphemism?
Won't somebody think of the hamsters!

rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2610 on: 16 September, 2021, 09:01:41 pm »
You don't think Kim tried to charge her electric car from a train?
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2611 on: 18 September, 2021, 07:15:08 pm »

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2612 on: 18 September, 2021, 08:35:48 pm »
Not only that, but she bought juice and drank it!

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2613 on: 19 September, 2021, 02:26:37 pm »
Hilarious! Bizarre!
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2614 on: 27 September, 2021, 05:08:59 pm »
Not fast & rarely furious

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2615 on: 04 October, 2021, 12:59:19 pm »
Oh look, more statue news making a splash (sorry) in Bristol. The first public sculpture of a Black woman made by a Black woman in the UK
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2616 on: 05 October, 2021, 02:16:29 pm »
Bristol is like San Francisco.
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I said, 'It's a bit like San Francisco, it's got the bridge and it's on the water, it's very hilly. We've got beautiful weather like California.'
Errrmmm...
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2617 on: 05 October, 2021, 06:23:45 pm »
California, Birmingham presumably.  Though I reckon Brizzle is windier.

Feanor

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2618 on: 05 October, 2021, 06:29:43 pm »

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2619 on: 05 October, 2021, 07:25:15 pm »
We have a Hollywood just outside Bristol, with a fancy tower:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pix-from-paul/10646886226

But in terms of weather, Mark Twain never visited Bristol.
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2620 on: 05 October, 2021, 08:03:38 pm »
We've got a Hollywood too, but it's completely unremarkable.

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2621 on: 05 October, 2021, 08:06:08 pm »
We hired our wedding car from the one near Kim many years ago. Hollywood Cars really isn't as glamorous as it sounds.

Beardy

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2622 on: 05 October, 2021, 09:46:55 pm »
We’ve got a California here in Woodbridge although the California in Ipswich has a social club and everything.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2623 on: 05 October, 2021, 09:48:19 pm »
A social club? Ipswich is basically Buena Vista of the Stangles.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2624 on: 06 October, 2021, 11:31:40 am »
I thought _I_ had a problem with an untidy home & too many books.....    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113955122#
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